Mark, the linguistic science that studies sound producion in the mouth is called Phonetics. The specific plosive sounds are P/B, T/D. P/B are known as Bilabial Plosives that are Voiceless/Voiced respectively. T/D are Plosives that have a range of production points in the mouth: Dental/Alveolar/Postalveolar and are Voiceless/Voiced respectively too. Why I bring this up is because my linguistics degree comes in handy in explain the whats and whys of pronunciation in various languages that have those sounds. Plus, the reason behind the issues you get with the Fricative sounds S/Z and why they have such a busy amount of high frequency activity that causes issues with very sensitive microphones and the balance a recording engineer has to play in getting it to sound right without slamming down or filtering out heavily those high frequencies that are associated with those sounds. One of the funnest exercises that we had to do in one of my phonetics classes was to transcribe back into a sentence what was printed out on a spectrograph. That was a serious exercise but it made us get a much better appreciation how all the consonants and vowels are produced and a good visual of the above characteristics. Excellent video too! I always enjoy hearing a working professional's techniques and perspectives on gear and performance.
Thomas, that is extremely interesting and helpful info, man. Thank you for digging deep into it. I dig hearing about the science behind the human voice.
This Rocks! I wish I would have known this in the late 70's doing multiple tags for spots going from reel to reel to the old cart system where you had to read the tag live while dubbing to cart. One Plosive Pop and you had to do the entire dub, sometimes 8 to 10 spots, over!!! The horror and pain of analog especially when we had no windscreens. THANKS!
Ugh! That sounds like hell. LOL. I can’t even imagine what a royal pain that must have been. Thankfully we don’t have to live like audio cavemen any longer. Viva la technologie!
It takes a little practice, but it’s something you can practice anytime by holding your hand in front of your face and saying “pop, pop, pop” over and over while you slightly curl your lips inward until you can do it consistently without feeling your breath hit your hand.
Yo mark, I just wanna hop over here and say thanks so much for making this video. This is one of my favorite ones of yours and I’ve revisited it today. this content is extremely valuable! I hope you can share more thoughts on performance, and tips for working the mic.
Nice. Great technique! I’ll definitely try this. I agree pop filters do change the tonality. But what about saliva buildup on your mic capsule? I guess that’s also all in technique.
Mark, the linguistic science that studies sound producion in the mouth is called Phonetics. The specific plosive sounds are P/B, T/D. P/B are known as Bilabial Plosives that are Voiceless/Voiced respectively. T/D are Plosives that have a range of production points in the mouth: Dental/Alveolar/Postalveolar and are Voiceless/Voiced respectively too. Why I bring this up is because my linguistics degree comes in handy in explain the whats and whys of pronunciation in various languages that have those sounds. Plus, the reason behind the issues you get with the Fricative sounds S/Z and why they have such a busy amount of high frequency activity that causes issues with very sensitive microphones and the balance a recording engineer has to play in getting it to sound right without slamming down or filtering out heavily those high frequencies that are associated with those sounds. One of the funnest exercises that we had to do in one of my phonetics classes was to transcribe back into a sentence what was printed out on a spectrograph. That was a serious exercise but it made us get a much better appreciation how all the consonants and vowels are produced and a good visual of the above characteristics. Excellent video too! I always enjoy hearing a working professional's techniques and perspectives on gear and performance.
Thomas, that is extremely interesting and helpful info, man. Thank you for digging deep into it. I dig hearing about the science behind the human voice.
This Rocks! I wish I would have known this in the late 70's doing multiple tags for spots going from reel to reel to the old cart system where you had to read the tag live while dubbing to cart. One Plosive Pop and you had to do the entire dub, sometimes 8 to 10 spots, over!!! The horror and pain of analog especially when we had no windscreens. THANKS!
Ugh! That sounds like hell. LOL. I can’t even imagine what a royal pain that must have been. Thankfully we don’t have to live like audio cavemen any longer. Viva la technologie!
Can't have Gram crying! Thanks for the lead this this from the other thread, Mark!
It takes a little practice, but it’s something you can practice anytime by holding your hand in front of your face and saying “pop, pop, pop” over and over while you slightly curl your lips inward until you can do it consistently without feeling your breath hit your hand.
You're nothing less than a certified Genius...
That's actually true. My certification hangs on the wall. Though it did come from a box of Cracker Jack and they spelled genius with a "J".
This is brilliant! I've been struggling with plosives for a while, you've saved me. cheers!
Glad I could help! It took me a couple of weeks of effort to get used to it but now it’s a habit and I don’t even think about it.
YOU ARE A GENIUS!!
I need it for my vocals when singing live, now I have something to train for this week.
Thanks a lot sir
You are very welcome.
Yo mark, I just wanna hop over here and say thanks so much for making this video. This is one of my favorite ones of yours and I’ve revisited it today. this content is extremely valuable! I hope you can share more thoughts on performance, and tips for working the mic.
I appreciate that! You’re very welcome. I can certainly do some more stuff like this. Thank you for the idea.
Awesome as always 👏
Thanks Karl!
Thank you🌎
You are most welcome!
Nice, thanks for the trick!
You're welcome, Dean.
Nice. Great technique! I’ll definitely try this. I agree pop filters do change the tonality. But what about saliva buildup on your mic capsule? I guess that’s also all in technique.
I've never had to wipe down a moist headbasket grill so I'm not too concerned.
@@MarkYoshimotoNemcoff lol 😂 that’s good. I can only imagine someone who sprays a lot when they talk gooping up a mic 🎙️
I stopped listening to my favorite radio station specifically due to the popping p's. I just imagined the microphone drenched in saliva .
Yeah, that’s a truly disgusting picture I now have in my head. Thanks for that.
What microphone is that?
Townsend Sphere
@@MarkYoshimotoNemcoff Thanks Mark!